OnDemand Solution Will Enable Rapidly Expanding Business to Provide Consistent Training to Ensure an Optimal Customer Experience

REDWOOS SHORES, Calif.—August 26, 2008—Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced that Five Guys® Burgers and Fries, a rapidly expanding restaurant business, is implementing Saba Learning OnDemand to deliver online training and assessments for its Five Guys University Training program. With Saba, Five Guys will be able to effectively train its employees regardless of location as well as align operational training to support its organizational goals of selling the best burgers and fries, while delivering a great customer experience.

Five Guys began as a family-run business more than 20 years ago and has since grown into a national operation with nearly 350 locations around the U.S. In order to support its expanding operations and employee training needs, Five Guys needed a learning management system that could scale easily, offer consistency and measurement as well as be deployed OnDemand. Saba Learning OnDemand met all of these requirements and was selected for its ability to reduce process complexity as well as deliver consistent on-site training.

“Five Guys is experiencing explosive growth, and in order to ensure that customers continue to experience the same quality burgers and personal experience in our restaurants today as they did 20 years ago, we are putting systems in place that will make it easy for all employees to access training resources online,” said Sam Chamberlain, COO for Five Guys Burgers and Fries. “Five Guys University is a best-in-class learning center and a critical investment in our organization’s continued success. As such, we carefully evaluated multiple learning platforms, and Saba Learning OnDemand impressed us with its ease of use and scalability as well as Saba’s ability to offer best-practices through its track record in the market.”

As part of the new, online system, Five Guys plans to deliver courses such as food safety, corporate history, customer service, cooking and others that will include video content as well as assessments that can be tracked directly in the Saba Learning system. With Saba Learning OnDemand, Five Guys will be able to deliver this critical, day-to-day operational training in the field easily and will enhance its classroom training to focus on specific, higher-level initiatives.

“It is exciting to work with a dynamic, fast-growing organization like Five Guys that is implementing learning programs to ensure quality and alignment with business goals,” said Ronno Lee, vice president Saba OnDemand Strategy and Operations. “Five Guys is another great example of how organizations can get Saba OnDemand up and running quickly to provide a robust platform to support their organization throughout the complete people management lifecycle.”

Saba OnDemand customers, like Five Guys, benefit from reduced overhead costs associated with an implementation project—including IT resources, hardware and software maintenance. Automatic upgrades will provide FiveGuys with ongoing access to new functionality, removing the need for upgrade planning. Moreover, through Saba’s proven track record of serving enterprise customers across multiple industries, it is able to deliver best-practices natively within its people management solutions, providing customers with deep process expertise.


About Saba
Founded in 1997, Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) software and services. Saba's people management solutions are used by more than 1,300 organizations and over 17 million end users worldwide. Saba's solutions increase organizational performance by aligning workforce goals with
organizational strategy; developing, managing and rewarding their people; and improving collaboration.

Saba product offerings address all aspects of strategic HCM and are available both on-premise and OnDemand (www.saba.com/products). To ensure long-term customer success, our global services capabilities and partnerships provide strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.

Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel-Lucent, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Kaiser Permanente, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Renault, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotiabank, Singapore Ministry of Finance, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Tata Consultancy Services, Wyndham International,
Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has offices on five continents. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call +1-877-SABA-101 or +1-650-779-2791.


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